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Your Golf Grip - Are You Messing It Up?

Do you ever try changing your golf grip to improve your score? Do you find yourself trying to do it every week, trying to find just the right golf grip that let you hit the ball straight? Do you hunt through bookstores and the library for more ideas on how to grip your golf clubs? If you say that yes to all that then you may have solved your problem right there.

Why would we say that? Because there are only 3 basic golf grips and that is it! You have the Overlap grip, the 10 finger grip and the Vardon grip. Three...no more and no less. But you have problems driving the ball straight don't you? It hooks, it slices, you top it, you shank it. Some thing is wrong and your grip just doesn't seem right. So you go looking for a better grip. The problem is you're just making things worse. Just because you grip doesn't feel right doesn't mean it is wrong.

The basic golf grip has just one basic function-that is to ensure that you grip the club in such a way that the clubface always strikes the ball square to the target. That allows the ball to be driven straight to where you want it to go. No more and no less. And yet, if your golf grip is perfect or proper then why do you still have problems?

People forget to think about the other parts of their swing. If your swing comes down from the outside to the inside then you're likely to hook the ball. The golf grip has little to do with the direction of your swing, but it has a lot to do with the clubface impacting the ball squarely. But if you're swing is driving the ball to the right than its not your grip that is the problem. Why change it ? A bad setup will produce bad shots. Checking your stance can often eradicate any hook without changing your grip.

Here is a good tip to try. Get yourself a good training aid with a built in grip and you can start to really see where your problems really are. The molded grips will always keep your hands in the proper position and you will then know that your problems are somewhere else. Plus you get a chance to reinforce a proper grip. And if you get one of the training clubs that break when you swing improperly then there is no guesswork. You know exactly what you need to work on.

Stop being one of those golfers who keeps changing his golf grip because he thinks that has to be the answer. It more than likely is not. Once you have been trained in the proper way to grip a golf club, don't change it. Use the good training aids that are on the market to actually zero in on your real problems, not your imaginary ones. What you get the perfect golf grip keep it and watch your golf scores begin to go down.

By: Lee MacRae

Create the perfect golf grip by buying a good golf swing aid.

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